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Racial Harmony Awards Honor Five
Members of Congress The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding presented the Seventh Annual Interethnic Racial Harmony Awards on Thursday, March 2, on Capitol Hill. The awards are given to members of Congress that have shown their commitment to building relationships among ethnic members of Congress and their respective communities. The Foundation chose five worthy recipients for this year’s racial harmony awards: Rep. Elijah Cummings, Rep. Raul Grijalva, Rep. Steve Israel, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Rep. David Wu. In addition, the Executive Director of the Congressional Black Caucus, Paul Brathwaite, was honored with the first annual “Brenda Pillars Congressional Staff Award.” The event was co-hosted by Congressmen Charles Rangel, Tom Lantos, Jerrold Nadler, Silvestre Reyes and Bob Filner. The Asian American Justice Center, the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza and the World Jewish Congress were co-sponsors this year. “These awards mark outstanding achievement by men and women who have advanced the cause of diversity and race relations throughout the nation,” according to Rabbi Marc Schneier, the President of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. “The actions of these individuals have served not only their constituents, but the whole country.”
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